Latter-day Saint MBA Podcast
44 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsWe seek, by way of business, the betterment of individuals, organizations, and societies through principles-based leadership, mentoring, and service.
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Glenn Bingham
April 11, 2023 09:35 - 51 minutes - 56.1 MBGlenn is an expert in strategy and technology with over 40 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He is the founder of two successful software companies in the travel industry and currently devotes his time to a non-profit humanitarian organization that he founded. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Oxford University. He was also a CPA.
Matt Dicou
March 20, 2023 09:05 - 48 minutes - 52.7 MBSee details and register for the upcoming Latter-day Saint MBA Society conference at https://latterdaysaintmba.com/registration-2023 Matt is currently in his second year at Stanford GSB. He grew up in Sandy, UT and after serving in the France Lyon Mission received his Bachelor's in Business Strategy at BYU. Prior to graduate school, he spent five years at Visa--first in a leadership rotational program where he worked across product, marketing, and sales, and then he spent his two...
Scott & Kassidy Sorensen
December 13, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MBScott Sorensen is an MBA Candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to the GSB, he led the finance, data, and technology endeavors of Twin Bridges Hospitality, a hospitality-focused asset management firm with $1.2B AUM. He was the first employee who helped expand the portfolio from one hotel with 31 rooms to fourteen hotels with more than 2,000 rooms. Within this role, Scott wore many different hats to drive business initiatives forward, including business intellig...
Astrid Tuminez
December 07, 2022 22:22 - 53 minutes - 122 MBDr. Astrid S. Tuminez (pronounced too-MEE-nez) was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley University in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, she moved with her parents and siblings to the slums of Iloilo City when she was 2 years old, her parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children. Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in in...
John Keller
November 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 69 MBJohn is the 4th of 13 children born to an engineer father and a farmer mother. He grew up as a fairly free-range child in Rose Park, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving his mission in Bangkok, Thailand, John knew he wanted to pursue entrepreneurship and somehow impact the world for good through scalable, impact-based businesses. As an entrepreneur, turned consultant, turned serial entrepreneur, John has been involved in numerous start-ups and high growth businesses; ...
Elder Robert Gay
November 22, 2022 16:21 - 1 hour - 144 MBElder Robert C. Gay is an emeritus General Authority Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a General Authority he helped develop and implement the Church’s global self-reliance initiative and served as the Chairman of Self-Reliance Services and the Perpetual Education Fund Committee. He also served as a member of the Presideny of the Seventy, as the President of the Asia North Area and as a member of the worldwide Missionary Executive Council and the Board o...
Jacob Jones
November 15, 2022 19:04 - 59 minutes - 70 MBJacob Jones’ journey to a business management career was unexpected (at least to him) and involved leaps of faith, major disappointments, and several miracles. Jacob is now mid-career, middle management, having recently joined Eastman Chemical as the Corporate Director of Product and Pricing. His previous decade was spent at 3M in a variety of strategy and business roles. Originally a Chemical Engineer, Jacob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Brigham Young...
Richard Flores
September 20, 2022 23:51 - 50 minutes - 116 MBRichard Flores is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School, expected to graduate in 2023. He hails from American Fork, UT and attended BYU for his undergraduate education in economics and business strategy. Richard began his career consulting with Bain & Company in Dallas, TX before transitioning to a product strategy role at Capital One in McLean, VA. He served his mission in London, England where he gained a love for all things fashion (and a stronger testimony of the Gosp...
David Checketts
August 10, 2022 14:34 - 1 hour - 162 MBDavid W. Checketts is one of the most seasoned and well-known sports, media and entertainment executives in the industry with a career that has spanned over four decades. Over that time, Mr. Checketts has been responsible for the success of some of the most iconic brands in their respective industries. Mr. Checketts is the Managing Partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management, a private equity firm founded in 2011 focused on sports, media and entertainment with investments i...
Kevin Rollins
August 04, 2022 15:24 - 50 minutes - 115 MBKevin Rollins served as CEO of Dell, Inc from 2004-2007. He was responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and service and for overseeing Dell's Worldwide Home and Small Business Group, European operations, and the Personal Systems Group. Prior to being elected to his current position in December 1997, Mr. Rollins served as president, Dell Americas. In this position, he was responsible for the company's operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America. Formerly a...
Matthew McConkie
May 18, 2022 16:10 - 53 minutes - 122 MBMr. McConkie is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Tunbridge Peak, LLC a subsidiary company of Peak Capital Partners. Matt began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York. Matt went on to become the Vice President of Capital Markets at Crosland, a diversified real estate development company in Charlotte NC. His current company, Tunbridge Peak, is a real estate private equity company that invests in self-storage, retail, and senior housing facilities. Matt is...
Bruce Larson
April 20, 2022 17:07 - 39 minutes - 90 MBBruce Larson is currently a partner and the global head of Human Resources at The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager. He joined Carlyle in 2019 after 32 at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Bruce was an M&A banker, global head of HR, and filled several other managerial roles. At Goldman Bruce was based in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He left Goldman as a partner. Bruce graduated with a BA from the University of Utah with a degree in Finance and Japanese. Following his und...
Emily Snyder
April 05, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MBEmily Snyder loves collecting experiences and loves inviting people to take their thinking one step deeper than usual. With a teacher-heart, she graduated from BYU with a degree in Elementary Education. From there Emily has had a variety of professional “chapters” in her life: she has taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade; worked for the general Relief Society presidency; helped run Professor Clayton Christensen’s world at the Harvard Business School; was the Chief of Staff at Magnolia (C...
Paul McKinnon
March 29, 2022 17:38 - 55 minutes - 76.5 MBProfessional experience: Senior Advisor - Peterson Partners Senior Advisor - McKinsey & Company Senior Lecturer - Harvard Business School Head of Human Resources - Citigroup Sr. Vice President, Human Resources - Dell, Inc. Education: Ph.D. Organizational Studies - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Organizational Behavior - Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University Bachelor of Arts, History - Brigham Young University ...
Randy Shumway
March 15, 2022 23:26 - 1 hour - 84 MBRandy Shumway founded Cicero Group (www.cicerogroup.com) in 2001. It began humbly, with four people working out of Randy’s house. Today, Cicero has grown to a highly respected, global management consulting firm, rated one of the globe’s top 50 overall consulting firms, and one of the five best consulting firms in the world to work for, with offices located across the United States. In 2016, Randy was awarded Utah’s CEO of the Year and in 2017, Randy was recognized with Utah’s Lifeti...
Liz Wiseman
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutes - 51.9 MBLiz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, Wall Street JournalbestsellerRookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact. She i...
Cromwell Wong
March 01, 2022 10:44 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBCromwell Wong currently serves as an executive and a board member at IsoTruss®. Prior to IsoTruss®, he was a part of the team that managed Saudi Aramco's (TADAWUL: 2222) then $140 billion debt portfolio. Cromwell also assisted in the IPO listing of the company in the local stock exchange. Before Saudi Aramco, Cromwell worked as a VP for QRI Group, an upstream Oil & Gas consulting and investment firm in Texas. He started his career working on Wall Street with JPMorgan and Ernst &...
Scott Porter
February 22, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBScott Porter, San Diablo Artisan Churros founder, has delivered deep-fried happiness to over 3,000 celebrations since 2016, winning back-to-back Best of State for pastries in Utah. Scott is a seasoned entrepreneur and leader having been the executive director of two nursing homes and a home health agency, co-founder of the first all-you-can-fly membership airline Surf Air, co-founder of the game of Reverse Charades, co-founder of the international non-profit organization Singular Hu...
Evan McMullin
February 15, 2022 15:49 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBEvan McMullin is a proud Utahn, former undercover CIA officer and chief policy director in Congress, who ran for president in 2016 as an independent. Evan grew up in a family like many in America, one that struggled to put food on the table and heat their home in the winter. At an early age, Evan learned the value of hard work and to always honor family and country. Inspired by books and movies at age 15, Evan contacted the CIA and asked to join. He was told to call back when he w...
Ben Wanamaker
February 01, 2022 10:39 - 50 minutes - 116 MBBen joined Humana in 2020 where he leads the corporate strategy team. Ben came to Humana from CVS Health / Aetna, where he was Vice President and General Manager over the analytics product portfolio and the Attain by Aetna business, a joint venture created with Apple. Prior to Aetna, Ben worked at Walmart, where he co-founded and successfully launched a start- up business, Walmart Care Clinic, as well as joint ventures with McKesson and Quest Diagnostics. Before joining Walmart, Be...
Derrin Hill
January 25, 2022 18:59 - 1 hour - 152 MBDerrin builds empowered individuals and teams, systems for growth, motivated communities, and strong companies. Having founded/co-founded 10 companies to date. The most recent company is RevRoad, a venture services firm, with a portfolio of 44 high growth technology companies. He has worked across the United States and over a dozen countries around the world. Derrin’s greatest priority is his role in building a great marriage and a wonderful family with his wife Nicole and their f...
Stephen Gibson
January 05, 2022 13:35 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBStephen W. Gibson has created or funded more than a dozen entrepreneurial businesses, including being the first investor in 1-800-Contacts, Omniture, and Ancestry.com. He also co-founded the Utah Angels, the first Angel investment group in Utah. In 1999, he and Bette moved to the Philippines on their own for 19 months and created a non-profit educational system, The Academy for Creating Enterprise, for Filipino returned missionaries. The Academy now has more than 671 alumni chapters...
Whitney Johnson
November 23, 2021 15:50 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBWhitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020 fastest-growing private company in America. One of the fifty leading business thinkers in the world (#14) as named by Thinkers50, Whitney and her team are expert at helping people grow their people to grow their organization. Having worked at Fortune 100 companies, been an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street, invested with Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, and coached alongside the r...
Ryan Smith - 2021 Conference Replay
October 13, 2021 18:56 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBMike Maughan (Northwestern's Kellogg MBA student) interviews Ryan Smith about scaling your whole life .
Spencer Millerberg
October 06, 2021 19:25 - 49 minutes - 52.3 MBSpencer Millerberg is an average mountain biker, a bad golfer, and a good samaritan. Professionally, Spencer worked in marketing and merchandising for Amazon.com and Walmart before founding One Click Retail, the first Amazon analytics and sales measurement tool. He and his partners sold One Click Retail to a London based firm and finished working there in 2019. Spencer is currently working on his next business, holds various board positions, and is active in building mountain bike t...
Crystal Green
September 29, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBCrystal Green grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and is the second of five daughters in a family of six kids. As a kid, she'd organize her siblings to create small stands and compete to see who could earn the most fake money with their idea. This was the beginning of her interest in business. After graduating cum laude from Harvard, she came to Utah to work for a non-profit called Humanitarian Experience, Inc or HEFY. At HEFY she travelled the world, planning humanitarian trips for LDS t...
Gavin Christensen
September 15, 2021 15:38 - 42 minutes - 34 MBGavin Christensen is the founding visionary at Kickstart Fund. In 2008, he recognized the need for both leadership and seed-stage capital in the region, so he launched Kickstart to fill this gap. Starting a seed-stage firm away from the coasts amidst the Great Recession was not easy, to say the least. But this experience means Gavin understands what it’s like to see a vision for the future that few others do, and he knows what it takes to make that vision a reality. His guidance to ...
Mitt Romney - 2021 Conference Replay
September 08, 2021 16:39 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBChristopher Gong (Wharton MBA student) interviews Senator Mitt Romney about faith, balance, and success.
Mark & Jane Johnson
August 24, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBJane Clayson Johnson is an award-winning broadcast journalist widely known for her work over the last decade as a radio host on NPR. Before that, Jane worked in television for many years… first at CBS News, hosting the network morning program, interviewing presidents and Hollywood stars. Many remember her high-profile interview with Martha Stewart… just before Martha went to prison. Jane was also on the air on 9/11. Before CBS, Jane was a correspondent at ABC News, where she trave...
Davis Smith
August 04, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes - 57.7 MBDavis is the founder and CEO of Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear brand with a humanitarian mission. He is a member of the United Nations Foundation's "Global Leadership Council" and a Presidential Leadership Scholar. Davis was Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s “CEO of the Year” and previously started Brazil’s "Startup of the Year." Davis holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Brigham Young University. Davis is an adventurer who ha...
Daniel Snow
July 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBProfessor Snow is an Associate Professor and Lee Tom Perry Distinguished Fellow at BYU's Marriott School of Business. He serves as director of MBA Programs at BYU. Before rejoining the Marriott School's faculty, he was an Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. He also was a Fellow (faculty member) at Oxford University's Exeter College. He was an Associate Professor at the Marriott School from 2010-2018. He was a chair...
Ronell Hugh
July 22, 2021 01:36 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBRonell Hugh is first and foremost a husband and father. He is married to Briawna for 18 years, and they have 4 energetic children, Palmer, Portia, Teya, and Thatcher. Being a husband and father is the most important part of Ronell’s life and he is intentional about making sure that he and his family are mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually strong. Ronell recently accepted a new role as the Vice President of Product Marketing for Drift. Prior to Drift, Ronell was th...
Jeff Harbach
July 14, 2021 22:06 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBAs President and CEO of Kauffman Fellows, Jeff Harbach leads the team in delivering a world-class experience for each Fellow, providing leading-edge content around capital formation, and creating networking opportunities to help Fellows maximize their personal and professional development. As a Fellow from Class 16, he has brought a unique perspective and passion for the organization to the team since he joined as Managing Director for recruitment and class design in June 2014. Jef...
Vanessa & Nate Quigley
July 07, 2021 13:37 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBNate and Vanessa Quigley are the co-founders of Chatbooks (the internet’s favorite photo book company), and of 7 beautiful children. They met in their first year of college at Brigham Young University and were married a few short years later. Vanessa has a degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from BYU, and Nate earned a BS in Accounting from BYU and an MBA from Harvard Business School. On a mission to strengthen families, Nate serves as CEO of Chatbooks and Vanessa as the Chat...
Brigitte Madrian
July 01, 2021 12:36 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBBrigitte C. Madrian is the Dean and Marriott Distinguished Professor in the Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Finance and the George W. Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics. Before coming to BYU, she was on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School (2006-2018), the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (2003-2006), the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1995-2003) and the Harvard U...
Mike Maughan
June 24, 2021 05:04 - 56 minutes - 61 MBMike Maughan is head of strategic initiatives at Qualtrics and runs the office of the Executive Chairman. Previously, ran global corporate communications, strategic business development, and helped establish the employee experience business at Qualtrics. Mike co-founded 5 For The Fight with Ryan Smith, which is focused on raising funds for cancer research. He developed a groundbreaking partnership with the NBA’s Utah Jazz putting the 5 For The Fight logo on the Utah Jazz jersey and...
Steve Wheelwright
June 09, 2021 13:24 - 1 hour - 72 MBDr. Wheelwright, with his wife, Margaret, presided over the Boston Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from November 2015 through October of 2018. He and his wife live in Oakley, Utah where he continues to serve on a handful of Boards of Directors. He and Margaret love to spend time with their five children, 20 grandchildren, and soon-to-be 3 great-grandchildren. From June of 2007 through July of 2015, Dr. Wheelwright served as President of BYU-Hawaii, one of t...
Tagg Romney
June 02, 2021 19:35 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBTagg founded Solamere Capital in 2008 with Eric Scheuermann and Spencer Zwick. Prior to co-founding Solamere, Tagg held a number of senior operating and investing roles. He served as Chief Marketing Officer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, VP of Onfield Marketing and Head of Strategic Planning for Reebok, and Director of Strategic Planning and Finance for Elan Pharmaceuticals. Tagg worked as a management consultant for both McKinsey & Company and The Monitor Group. Tagg was also a succe...
Derrick Porter
May 27, 2021 17:14 - 50 minutes - 116 MBDerrick Porter, CEO of Beauty Industry Group (BIG), has spent the last 15 years building BIG into a global portfolio of beauty brands with offices in 5 countries on three continents. As the company has grown Derrick has partnered with two leading private equity firms, Gauge Capital and Huntsman Gay Global Capital, together acquiring eight companies and resulting in its products now being sold in more than 165 countries. Derrick was recently recognized by Ernst & Young as 2020 En...
Manoel Amorim
May 12, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 44.4 MBManoel Amorim served as President/CEO of several leading companies in different sectors in Latin America and in Europe. He also served as a Director in several Boards in the USA, Latin America, and Brazil. He currently has investments as a non managing partner at Peak Capital Partners in UT and MXF Partners in UT and at K2A Partners in Brazil. He serves in the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the Marriot School of Management of the Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Prior t...
Jeremy & Kristin Andrus
May 05, 2021 14:38 - 1 hour - 143 MBFollow Jeremy and Kristin on social media: https://www.instagram.com/kristinandrus https://www.instagram.com/jeremy_andrus https://www.youtube.com/c/KristinAndrus Jeremy's Bio: Jeremy Andrus is President; CEO of Traeger Grills, the original wood pellet grill brand that has taken the outdoor cooking world by storm. He and a financial partner acquired the company in 2014, transforming it from a small, regional, 26-year-old business into a multi-hundred-million- dollar brand that own...
Carine Strom Clark
April 24, 2021 14:27 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBCarine Clark is the President and CEO of Banyan, and a three-time president and CEO of high-growth tech companies, specializing in helping companies scale from $10 million to $100 million and more. Her reputation as a data-driven marketing executive at Novell, Altiris and Symantec opened doors to lead Allegiance, MartizCX, and Banyan as president and CEO. She attributes her success to building an abundant team culture, demonstrating that companies accelerate their growth when they m...
Elder Kim B. Clark
April 24, 2021 14:23 - 50 minutes - 40.3 MBElder Kim B. Clark was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 4, 2015. He was released on October 5, 2019. At the time of his call he had been serving as the president of Brigham Young University–Idaho since 2005. He served as a member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy, Idaho Area, from 2007 to 2014. He also served as the Commissioner of the Church Educational System. Elder Clark received a bachelor of arts, a master of...
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April 19, 2021 18:01 - 3 minutes - 2.77 MBA brief explanation of the Latter-day Saint MBA podcast. For more information about the Latter-day Saint MBA Society visit ldsmba.com